Diablo II broken AGAIN??? thanks blizzard.

hackerError

The new patch apparantly causes an unhandled exception when joining bettlenet closed games.

Blizzard's techincal support had this very helpful tidbit:

"Diablo II only natively supports the Mac OS and Windows platforms. Currently, the Linux platform is not supported and the game may not run stably under Linux with Wine. You might want to try playing the game under Windows to see if this resolves the issue."

Anyone have any workarounds for this yet?
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feivelda · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

Have you tried the newest D2Loader?

bob_111 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 155

I only play SP but has a new d2loader been released for 1.11b ?

- bob_111

feivelda · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:58 am Post subject:

Yes, was released.
I don't post a link, you know, German Copyright Laws :evil:

, but you can find some Diablo2 resources at d2event

hackerError · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

Don't loaders just bypass cd checks? I can connect to battlenet but if I attempt to join or create a game it crashes out, I'm just leaving the cdrom in the drive.
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maggu2810 · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 20

i am using wine and the actually diablo 2 lod patch.
the masked by keyword: ~x86 version of wine (wine-20050830) can now handle the copy protection (so i think, because it had not been working in earlier versions of wine).
i mount my lod cd, start diablo and it is working.

--- sorry for the bad english ---

[perhaps interesting for someone:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2005/06/0049.html
http://www.winehq.com/site/myths (Myth 11)]

feivelda · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:27 am Post subject:

Try the newest loader.
I think, if it works before, it should work again with a new loader

maverick · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 37 Location: IRC

Diablo II 1.11b works quite nice, even on closed battlenet.

You might want to check out the following thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2629745.html

hackerError · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

I don't think you guys get what my problem is, though. I don't need a crack because the game loads fine with the cd in the tray, the problem is if I try to join a battle.net game it crashes. I'm able to connect to battle.net and chat, or browse games, but if I join, the guy in robes at the door shows up until it fills up the progressbar, at which point it crashes. It's maddening because I got the stupid cd to actually work and now i just cant PLAY

don't get me wrong I appreciate the help, I just wish someone else had and fixed this problem *sigh* I'm considering installing windows just because this new computer and linux are becoming more trouble than they are worth.

And that's saying a lot, as I haven't had windows for 4 years now.
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